Re: What is the convention for Command Prompt window arguments

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Thanks, Windows doesn't have it's own convention? Like maybe none of the
above?

Well, I don't know that it is written in stone anywhere, but the notation
using slashes (/) is more common than the one with dashes (-).

/ is indeed more common for win cmd utilities. another universal option is
/? which prints out the listing of all possible options with a bit of
information.

Is VMS still alive?

I think that there may still be something called OpenVMS around but I know
nothing about it. You may want to try googling for it.

www.openvms.org
I wanted to give it a try, but apparently it only runs on true 64 bit
platforms like itanium and alpha. slightly out of budget for me...
I used openvms once in a GPS simulation system, where the VMS machine was
used for maintaining a model of a sattelite constellation in real-time. it
was rock solid. you could throw any abuse at it, and it would keep going.
I remember it had very long command names.

Well, you can't go wrong with an o/s designed by David Cutler. IMO, his
have been the best there is since the 70s - RSX 11/M, VAX/VMS, Windows NT.

I agree. the linux driver model cannot even begin to compare with the NT
based models.

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